Summary Information

Title: Augustus Ward Loomis papers,
Creator: Augustus Ward. Loomis
Inclusive dates: 1803-1897.
.4 cubic ft.
Correspondence, deeds, bonds, lists, sketches, photographs, bound volumes.
Abstract::

Collection includes letters to relatives in Cazenovia, New York, from Augustus Ward Loomis and his wife, Mary Ann, Presbyterian missionaries to Chekiang Province, China (1845-1849), Indian Territory (1852), and to the Chinese in San Francisco (1865-1867). Also included are papers (1803-1849) of Ward's father, Seba Loomis, among them deeds for lands in Coventry, Connecticut, and Cazenovia, New York; a survey of his farm in Road Township, Madison County, New York; debtors' writs from Tolland County, Connecticut; a blacksmith's apprenticeship indenture from Windham County, Connecticut; and his will.

Call number: 2474
Language: Collection material in English
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library